köken: Inherited from Old French cause, borrowed from Classical Latin causa. Compare chose, an inherited doublet.
aile: à cause de, à cause que, causal, causalité, cause perdue, en cause, en connaissance de cause, en désespoir de cause, en tout état de cause, et pour cause
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin causa. Doublet of the inherited coisa and cousa. Cognates include English and French cause, Italian and Spanish causa.
impulse, impetus (sudden force that impels) · impulse (wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action) · pulse (brief burst of electromagnetic energy; brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal)
çekim: çoğul і́мпульси · tamlayan і́мпульсу
köken: Borrowed from German Impuls, from Latin impulsus. Compare Russian и́мпульс (ímpulʹs).
topic, subject, theme · reason, cause, grounds, justification · motif (recurring or dominant element in a work of art)
çekim: çoğul aiheet · tamlayan aiheen
köken: Probably via metathesis from ajaa (“to drive, pursue”) + -e (*ajeh), "that which spurs or drives on" > "reason". May also be inspired by aie. Another theory proposes a borrowing from an earlier (Pre-Germanic) form of Proto-Germanic *aiz (“copper, bronze”) (like *ajes- → *aješ > *ajeh), but the semantics and distribution make this questionable.
köken: From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language. Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, “to hear, to understand”).
köken: From Old Latin caussa, from Proto-Italic *kaussā, further origin unknown. Connected by some to Latin cudo (“to strike”), in the sense "strike a cause," in which the Proto-Indo-European form would be *kewh₂-ud-ʰ-t-, from *kewh₂- (“to cut, strike”). Others are skeptical of an Indo-European origin. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌔𐌀 (cavsa).
aile: accūsō, causārius, causidicus, causor, causula, excūsō, incūsō, recūsō
qua de causa/qua de re/quam ob causam
Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum causa fuit …. That day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was the cause [of everything].
SĪMŌ: Nē haec quidem / satis vehemēns causa ad objūrgandum.